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Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division (bbc.com)

×6.07 69 | 358 points by mosura 16 hours ago | 468 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hi, it's me, Wikipedia, and I am ready for your apology (mcsweeneys.net)

×6.92 63 | 191 points by imichael 13 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Grokipedia and the coup against reality itself (thedissident.news)

×6.56 62 | 93 points by coloneltcb 8 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Your vibe coded slop PR is not welcome (samsaffron.com)

×6.51 49 | 226 points by keybits 16 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Understanding the Worst .NET Vulnerability (andrewlock.net)

×1.50 40 | 190 points by ingve 16 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vitamin D reduces incidence and duration of colds in those with low levels (ijmpr.in)

×1.91 35 #54 | 307 points by cachecrab 14 hours ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Apache Fory Rust – 10-20x faster serialization than JSON/Protobuf (apache.org)

×1.56 34 #88 | 62 points by chaokunyang 9 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Texas Attorney General sues Tylenol makers over autism claims (bbc.com)

×3.57 33 | 75 points by throw0101a 11 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Police used Flock cameras to accuse a woman of theft, she had to prove innocence (coloradosun.com)

×3.90 30 | 79 points by stevenhubertron 11 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership (openai.com)

×2.26 27 #45 | 338 points by meetpateltech 14 hours ago | 447 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Austrian ministry kicks out Microsoft in favor of Nextcloud (itsfoss.com)

×3.36 26 #40 | 420 points by buyucu 14 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US Senate passes bill with Republican support to rescind Trump's Brazil tariffs (theguardian.com)

×4.48 75 | 8 points by mitchbob 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Washington Post editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties (npr.org)

×3.80 26 #37 | 549 points by ilamont 13 hours ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program (pyfound.blogspot.com)

×5.63 23 | 704 points by lumpa 1 day ago | 699 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux (tomshardware.com)

×5.92 24 #30 | 299 points by jamesgill 9 hours ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: AI has changed my job for the worse

×0.98 28 | 13 points by yodsanklai 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I built the same app 10 times: Evaluating frameworks for mobile performance (lorenstew.art)

×2.95 20 | 227 points by 0xblinq 22 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Criminal complaint against facial recognition company Clearview AI (noyb.eu)

×2.45 17 | 153 points by latexr 19 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea (arstechnica.com)

×5.56 16 #53 | 1525 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 602 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta layoff to hit 318 AI team workers around Bay Area headquarters (sfgate.com)

×3.54 34 | 5 points by randycupertino 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Men need twice as much exercise as women to lower heart disease risk (theguardian.com)

×2.78 26 #46 | 19 points by rdhyee 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tor Browser 15.0 (torproject.org)

×2.52 19 #32 | 90 points by pentagrama 6 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Volunteers Step in to Help Understaffed NOAA Track Hurricane Melissa (nytimes.com)

×2.24 21 #73 | 15 points by perihelions 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An ex-Intel CEO's mission to build a Christian AI: Hasten the return of Christ (theguardian.com)

×3.81 20 #52 | 26 points by teleforce 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Senator Cotton blocks effort to make daylight saving time permanent (politico.com)

×2.17 41 | 4 points by rurp 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FCC Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners' Phone Calls (nytimes.com)

×1.93 22 | 8 points by coloneltcb 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ubuntu Unity faces possible shutdown as team member cries for help (neowin.net)

×2.63 23 #76 | 8 points by jnord 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Poker Tournament for LLMs (pokerbattle.ai)

×1.61 13 #61 | 294 points by SweetSoftPillow 20 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Posting your property on Airbnb is now punishable offense in Sausalito, Bay Area (sfgate.com)

×3.58 26 #49 | 9 points by randycupertino 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude for Excel (claude.com)

×2.18 11 #78 | 666 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 447 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Airplane Captures Striking 'Stadium Effect' Inside Hurricane Melissa's Eye (petapixel.com)

×2.99 29 #64 | 6 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update (arstechnica.com)

×5.57 12 #15 | 439 points by stalfosknight 8 hours ago | 356 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Picture gallery: Amiga prototype "Lorraine" at the Amiga 40 event (amiga-news.de)

×1.18 9 | 168 points by doener 22 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k (threads.com)

×3.62 9 #11 | 850 points by stevenhubertron 11 hours ago | 755 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
China Pushes Boundaries with Animal Testing to Win Global Biotech Race (bloomberg.com)

×2.08 15 | 4 points by latchkey 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Easy RISC-V (dramforever.github.io)

×1.42 7 #85 | 380 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open AI Restructures as a For-Profit (nytimes.com)

×1.39 21 | 3 points by kumarvvr 54 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Friend or Foe: Delegating to an AI Whose Alignment Is Unknown (arxiv.org)

×2.83 10 | 5 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI can code, but it can't build software (bytesauna.com)

×3.27 6 | 252 points by nreece 1 day ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI Completes For-Profit Transition, Pushing Microsoft Above $4T (wsj.com)

×1.22 8 #63 | 7 points by doener 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NDAs keep AI data center details hidden from Americans (nbcnews.com)

×1.21 7 | 4 points by moneycantbuy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
JetKVM – Control any computer remotely (jetkvm.com)

×1.61 3 | 375 points by elashri 1 day ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Extinction rates have slowed across many plant and animal groups, study shows (arizona.edu)

×0.63 5 #70 | 7 points by paulpauper 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
23% of U.S. adults live with a mental illness (2022) (nih.gov)

×1.56 5 #77 | 6 points by mgh2 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Guidelines for User Age-Verification and Responsible Dialogue Act (Guard Act) [pdf] (senate.gov)

×2.75 6 #72 | 4 points by hedora 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rust cross-platform GPUI components (github.com/longbridge)

×2.02 1 | 501 points by xvilka 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Continual Learning Problem (jessylin.com)

×0.98 1 #39 | 52 points by kiyanwang 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Westinghouse is claiming a nuclear deal would see $80B of new reactors (arstechnica.com)

×1.46 1 #80 | 8 points by atilimcetin 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???